US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for sequential recommendation" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,314, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for sequential recommendation" was invented by Yongjun Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Zhiwei Liu (Chicago), Jia Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Caiming Xiong (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provides an intent prototypical contrastive learning framework that leverages intent similarities between users with different behavior sequences. Specifically, user behavior sequences are encoded into a plurality of user interest representations. The user interest representations are clustered into a plurality of...